Så er det vist på tide med en update! Jeg har kun været her i USA i 3,5 uge, men jeg har allerede set en hel del af Tennessee allerede! Fredag eftermiddag satte jeg mig ind i en bil med kurs mod Nashville, Tennessee state capitol og den største by i denne dejlige stat. Jeg var meget heldig at møde en pige, der tilfældigvis skulle mod Nashville denne weekend pga. helligdagen (Labor Day mandag, whooop), så jeg var ikke langsom til at spørge, om jeg måtte få et lift! Og hvorfor var jeg så så ivrig efter at komme til Nashville? Jo, ser I, en varm sommeraften i januar sidste år var jeg til Mundo Lingo i Buenos Aires, og jeg stødte helt tilfældigt ind i Meredith, som jeg hurtigt blev gode venner med. Meredith er fra Nashville, så det var allerede på listen, inden jeg fandt ud af, at jeg skulle flytte til Memphis. Det er jo perfekt. 3 timer senere, og så var vi der! Det bedste ved at rejse er ofte mennesker, og endnu bedre, at blive genforende med mennesker, du holder af, og som du har mødt et helt andet sted, end der hvor I nu ender henne.
Så Meredith blev min tourguide i Nashville! Lørdag blev dedikeret til udforskning af downtown. Det var første dag af college football over hele landet, så der blev selvfølgelig også spillet i Nashville, University of Tennessee mod gud ved hvem. Der var i hvert fald orange fans over det hele (UT's farve). Jeg fik set Broadway, deres turistgade, hvor det eneste du kan finde er country music-barer og butikker, der udelukkende sælger cowboy-støvler. Så er man i countrymusikkens hjemland, hva'? Læg også mærke til at&t-bygningen, der oftest bliver kaldt Batman-bygningen. Lidt sejt..
ENGLISH After being in the States for 3,5 weeks I figured it was about time I ventured out of the bubble and left Memphis. Haha no, just kidding. Nashville has been on my list ever since I met Meredith at Mundo Lingo in January last year, so during Welcome Week here I kept asking people, in case they told me they were from Nashville, if they had the intention of going back for Labor Day-weekend. One day, I got lucky, and Friday afternoon last week we took the 3h drive to Nashville where Meredith was expecting me. I'm pretty sure the best part of travelling is meeting new people, and for me, recently I've travelled to be reunited with people I care about and this time was no different. I love being reunited so far away from where you initially met. It makes the world so much smaller.
So yes, Saturday was dedicated to exploring Nashville. We went downtown to check out the tall buildings and it was pretty awesome. It was like a 100 degrees, but that's a different story. Saturday was, besides way too hot, also the first day of the season for college football, so University of Tennessee was playing at the stadium, hence the overload of orange shirts. We went to Broadway and checked out the country music bars and the cowboy boot-stores, saw a few bachelorette parties (I've been told that's a thing in Nashville), died some from walking in the heat and took a million pictures of the at&t-building, commonly referred to as the Batman-building. Nashville, you're cool.
